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John Barrymore, in a decorated military uniform, faces Lionel Barrymore, who has long hair and a full beard, in a scene from Rasputin and the Empress (1932). Greta Garbo, draped in fabric, gazes upward through a sheer curtain in a contemplative scene from the 1934 film The Painted Veil.
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John Barrymore, in a decorated military uniform, faces Lionel Barrymore, who has long hair and a full beard, in a scene from Rasputin and the Empress (1932).
Rasputin and the Empress John Barrymore (left) and Lionel Barrymore in Rasputin and the Empress (1932), directed by Richard Boleslavsky.

Richard Boleslavsky

Polish-born director
Also known as: Bolesław Ryszard Śrzednicki, Richard Bolesławski, Richard Boleslavski(Show More)
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Richard Boleslavsky (born February 4, 1889, Dębowa Góra, Poland, Russian Empire [now in Poland]—died January 17, 1937, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was a motion-picture and stage director who introduced the Stanislavsky method of acting to the United States. He directed such popular American films of the 1930s as Rasputin and the Empress (1932), Les Misérables (1935), and Theodora Goes Wild (1936). Boleslavsky first acted onstage in Odessa in 1904, and in 1906 he entered the...

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